The Thick of It has won a hat-trick of prizes at this year's Broadcasting Press Guild awards including a best actor prize for Peter Capaldi for his performance as Malcolm Tucker.

Armando Iannucci's political satire, which transferred from BBC4 to BBC2 for last year's series, also won best comedy/entertainment show and the writing award at the ceremony, which took place in central London today.

Sky's digital channel, Sky Arts, has won two prizes for its series, Sky Arts Theatre Live!, while former BBC Radio 2 breakfast host Sir Terry Wogan will receive the Harvey Lee Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting.

Choirmaster Gareth Malone won best TV performer in a non-acting role for BBC2's The Choir: Unsung Town, with the series also named best factual entertainment show.

In an awards dominated by the BBC, which picked up 12 of the 15 prizes, best single drama went to BBC4 biopic Enid, while best drama series was BBC1's Iraq drama, Occupation.

The best actress prize was collected by Maxine Peake, for her roles in BBC1 dramas Criminal Justice and The Street.

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain was named best documentary series, with Man on Wire, part of BBC2's Storyville strand, picking up best single documentary.

Radio 4 won two radio awards – Desert Island Discs picked up the radio programme of the year prize, while PM presenter Eddie Mair was named radio broadcaster of the year.

The awards, sponsored by Dave, the UKTV-owned digital channel, took place at the Theatre Royal in London's Drury Lane, and were voted for by journalists who write about TV and radio.